651 Posts Found

There are always two parties—the party of the past and the party of the future; the establishment and the movement.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Change Management, Progress

On our global information superhighway, the last thing we need is additional lanes or more information. In fact, to accelerate effective information exchange and collaboration, we need more rest stops. We need someone to guide us in processing information. Rest stops are integral to sifting through the heaps of data to get to the golden nuggets of information that will help the bottom line grow. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Information, Knowledge

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Experience, Mistakes

Please accept the fact that the human race is split three ways: some people can take in information by looking at figures, some by looking at graphs, and a third group only by touching it, feeling it, or writing it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Information, Organizational Behavior

The outside figures will always remain unsatisfactory for the simple reason that the important things that happen outside the business happen at the margin, and so they are not expressed in figures until it’s too late. They are qualitative changes. You can quantify them, but you don’t really understand the relationship quantitatively. I’ve been struggling with this for 40 years, and I’m not the only … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Information, Knowledge

Business managers are trained for action and speed – hence the “ready, fire, aim” mentality now prevalent in so many organizations. Far too often, thinking is seen as a luxury, and collective thinking as an aberration. The link between shared understanding and effective collective action is not widely understood or recognized. Under these circumstances, asking managers to accelerate shared learning is asking them to unlearn … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Action, Thought

The truly successful managers and leaders of the next century will. . . be characterized not by how they can access information, but by how they can access the most relevant information and differentiate it from the exponentially multiplying masses of non-relevant information.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Information, Trends / Analysis

The serious pursuit of knowledge in organizations will be challenged by an anti-intellectual orientation in the United States that has been present since the days of the frontier.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Culture, Knowledge

Attention is the currency of the information age.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Attention, Information

Life can only be understood by looking back, but can only be lived by looking forward.

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: History, Life

Privacy is always one of the hardest values to define philosophically, and that’s why it’s hard to protect politically.

Content: Quotation | Source: CSO Magazine | Subject: Privacy

There is a basic truth about what a human needs in order to survive; our culture seems unable to understand that. Human nature survives and has survived through the ages by being able to hold on tenaciously to two concepts: What is there about my life or world that has remained constant? and What is there about my life or world that has changed or … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior

I keep six honest serving-men.
(They taught me all I knew,)
Their names are What and Why and When,
And How and Where and Who

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Education, Knowledge

Until you’ve explicitly defined your life’s goals and aspirations, you can’t really know what tradeoffs you’re willing to make to reach them.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Ambition, Personal Development

Every life is shaped to some extent by circumstances: a lucky break or a fortunate decision…Things happen to us that drive our destinies in unforeseen ways. More fundamentally, we are all dealt a hand of cards– ranging from our genes to the family and neighborhood we grew up in-which shapes how we adapt to these circumstances.

Personal alignment is how well we play that hand … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Luck, Success / Failure

The real work of critical inquiry is to examine what we think we know in order to learn about what we do not know. We must question our givens and opinions. For it is far easier to label than to understand, and intellectual laziness undermines our studies with the deadly inversion of the scientific method: “I’ll believe it when I see it!” becomes “I’ll see … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa) | Subjects: Personal Development, Thought

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the right answers.

Content: Quotation | Source: ExecuNet.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

Effective communication does not consist in speech. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot encompass it. It must consist in the speaker, in the subject, and in the occasion.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Communication, Persuasion

You spend the first third of your life learning, the second third earning, and the final third giving back. And if there’s anything left over, well, I guess we didn’t plan well.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Life

There is a form of eminence that does not depend on fate; it is an air that sets us apart and seems to portend great things; it is the value that we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality that wins us the deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Content: Quotation | Source: Amazon.com | Subjects: Confidence, Personality / Behavior